AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes Nominations

ACE VENTURA: All-righty then!

(#65) SHERLOCK HOLMES: Elementary, my dear Watson.

TERRY McKAY: Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own. I was looking up. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You were there.

CHARLIE ALLNUT: A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
ROSE SAYER: "Nature,” Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above.

(#79) TED STRIKER: Surely, you can't be serious.
DR. RUMACK: I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

STEVE McCROSKEY: Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop
sniffing glue.

CAPT. OVEUR: You ever been in a cockpit before?
JOEY: No sir, I've never been up in a plane before.
CAPT. OVEUR: You ever seen a grown man naked?

RIPLEY: Get away from her, you bitch!

(#9) MARGO CHANNING: Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

PAUL: And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.

JOE GIDEON: It's showtime!

DEEP THROAT: Follow the money.

EMPEROR JOSEPH II: There are simply too many notes.

RICKY FITTS: Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.

(#53) CAPT. JEFFREY T. SPAULDING: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.

ANNA CHRISTIE: Give me a whisky, ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.

(#55) ANNIE HALL: La-dee-da, la-dee-da.

ALVY SINGER: I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.

ALVY SINGER: Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

FRAN KUBELIK: Shut up and deal.

(#12) LT. COL. BILL KILGORE: I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

(#50) JIM LOVELL: Houston, we have a problem.

MORTIMER BREWSTER: Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

ARTHUR BACH: I'm going to take a bath.
HOBSON: I'll alert the media.

MELVIN UDALL: You make me want to be a better man.

LOU PASCAL Yes, it used to be beautiful -- what with the rackets, whoring, guns.

(#93) MAME DENNIS: Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!

AUSTIN POWERS: Yeah, baby!

DR. EVIL: One million dollars!

FARMER HOGGETT: That'll do, pig. That'll do.

DR. EMMETT BROWN: Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.

JONATHAN SHIELDS: Georgia, love is for the very young.

SUGARPUSS O'SHEA: I love him because he's the kind of guy who gets drunk on a glass of buttermilk, and I love the way he blushes right up over his ears. I love him because he doesn't know how to kiss, the jerk!

THE JOKER: Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

BETELGEUSE: I'm the ghost with the most, babe.

CHANCE: I like to watch.

(#62) ROSA MOLINE: What a dump.

JOSH: Okay, but I get to be on top.

DEBBY MARSH: We're sisters under the same mink.

VIVIAN RUTLEDGE: I don't like your manners.
PHILIP MARLOWE: I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings.

BILL/TED: Excellent!

ROY BATTY: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

BART: Excuse me while I whip this out.

BERT HARRIS: That dirty, double-crossin' rat!

ELWOOD BLUES: We're on a mission from God.

MATTY WALKER: You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.

(#41) CLYDE BARROW: We rob banks.

BILLIE DAWN: Wouldja do me a favor, Harry? Drop dead!

FATHER EDWARD J. FLANAGAN: There is no bad boy.

WILLIAM WALLACE: They may take away our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY: How do I look?

PRINCIPAL RICHARD VERNON: Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns!

THE MONSTER: We belong dead.

MAJ. CLIPTON: Madness. Madness.

DR. DAVID HUXLEY: It isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you; but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments!